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Teaching Opportunity: Java Technical Expert & Educator

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07.11.16

Java Technical Expert & Educator

C4Q is looking for a passionate and talented Java technical expert and educator to teach in our Access Code program. The Java educator will teach our Android cohort alongside an Android expert and educator.

The Java Instructor should have a no-fail attitude and be prepared to work with other C4Q instructors and teaching assistants to do whatever it takes to provide the appropriate curriculum, instruction, leadership, mentorship, and support to ensure student success. This person should have experience in tech and the startup environment, an interest in teaching, and a passion for C4Q’s mission.

About C4Q:

Vision

We believe that people from every community—across ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic background—should have the opportunity to learn to code, gain jobs in tech, and create companies of the future.

We are transforming the tech industry by empowering underserved, low-income, and underrepresented communities with skills, networks, and opportunity through our innovative Access Code program. This intensive program in mobile app development prepares participants with no prior coding experience for developer jobs at the hundreds of innovative startups and tech companies that are looking to hire the next generation of talent. With support from leaders in business, philanthropy, and technology including Blackstone, Robin Hood Foundation, and Google, we are pioneering new pathways from poverty to the middle class.

Impact

Graduates are quadrupling their annual income from $18,900 to over $85,000 with jobs at leading tech companies such as Pinterest, Buzzfeed, OKCupid, and many others. Program cohorts are inclusive, diverse, and reflective of the industry we aim to create with at least 50% women, 60% underrepresented minorities, 40% immigrants, and 50% without 4-year college degrees. The most recent cycle of the program successfully trained over 50 developers, and the program will double to graduate over 100 developers in the coming year.

Responsibilities:

-Work with other instructors and teaching assistants to train adults who have no previous background in technology – with a variety of educational attainment from public universities to community college to no degree at all – and transform them into mobile developers employable at the best tech startups

-Develop Java curricula that match the needs of participants from a wide-range of educational and socio-economic backgrounds

-Work with the Android Expert and Educator to ensure that the curricula are consistent and cohesive

About AMT

In our dynamic world, art reflects conditional reality, and design contributes to further development of global societies. At Parsons School of Design, rigorous practice and critical scholarship prepares students to become leading agents of commentary and change.